AP: The Obama administration will issue a proposed rule Tuesday that aims to increase medication-based treatment for tens of thousands of people addicted to opioids.
The proposed rule, along with a commitment from 60 medical schools to heighten training for prescribing opioids, will coincide with President Barack Obama’s visit to Atlanta where he will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Sanjay Gupta at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit.
Barky might conceivably have some valid ideas about this because of his extensive personal experience.
Constitutional Law Scholar ? – nyet
Expert on Recreational Drug Abuse – SI !
No background check or transcripts required to know this one
Does anyone think it odd that since we’ve been a military presence in Afghanistan that heroin has become cheaper, more plentiful, and of higher quality?
Kudos on the choice of pic!
Oh my goodness. Photo + Headline = Hysterically funny. Still laughing.
“Obama to address nation’s growing opioid problem”
Barry The Fairy does know he’s the root cause, right?
“Obama to address nation’s growing opioid problem”
Yeah….why don’t they just ask Bill Clinton how to properly prepare a Cuban cigar.
I thought the headline here was “Obama to address nation’s growing opinion problem”…
Gotta slow down while reading.
This is a huge issue, as deaths from drug use have more than doubled in the past 15 years. And more than half from prescription opioids. There is plenty of data showing that the War on Drugs (TM) is the problem rather than drug availability, the best being that the vast majority of GIs using heroin in Vietnam simply stopped once they returned to their families and a better environment. Steps do need to be taken, and the crony capitalism (i.e. government cronyism) supporting Big Pharma needs to be stopped.
Naturally, although 0bama has shed light on the importance of the issue I lack any confidence that his recommendations will be the right ones.
Not sure the democrat party wants people going off drugs before primaries are over, especially when they’re running a treasonous pathological lying crook against a communist.
Maybe he’s talking about religion. After all, Karl Marx famously observed that “Religion is the opium of the People”…
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Maybe they should have the surgery instead of taking the pain pill. But this clueless hack and his cronies aren’t qualified to be dog catchers let alone doctors.
Suuuuure. . . wean people off drugs by giving them more.
So speaketh the founding member of The Choom Gang.
What a total crock of bullshit. The way the country’s going you need to be on drugs, or you’ll go stark raving mad!
The FedGov needs to get out of the medicine business and get back to stealing from producers to give to those who don’t (and that includes the maggots in the FedGov).
izlamo delenda est …
barry o’fraud speaks live from the
white house crack room ..
speakin’ live from the white house crack room ..
Atlanta is about fifty five miles from here. I can see the boiling purple cloud of rage and profanity on the horizon.
Because when the Ruler is in motion, Atlanta has to stop. No helicopter for Him. Shutting down two major (I-75 & I-85) interstates right through the middle of the city is much more satisfying.
I’ve been caught in exactly one of those by The Magic Negro. Didn’t know he was in town. Trucker next to me told me what was going on. I got out of the work truck with my camera, climbed up on the rear toolboxes and faced the rear. Just a frozen river of vehicles far as I could see. This was maybe a mile south of Grady hospital on the north bound side.
I waved the camera around over my head and started waving both arms like a preacher does when he wants you to stand up. Had to have been over a thousand people got out of their cars and started waving and laughing.
I gotta’ find those pics.
Didn’t Obama say “Just take a pain pill!”
How many seconds in before he references the hard right-wing, Oxi-contin abusing Rush Limbaugh ??